Traffic (2011 film)

Traffic is a 2011 Malayalam language Indian thriller film written by brothers Bobby and Sanjay and directed by Rajesh Pillai. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Sreenivasan, Rahman, Kunchako Boban, Anoop Menon, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Sandhya, Roma, Remya Nambeesan and Asif Ali. The film has its narrative in a hyperlink format. The film opened onJanuary 2011, to a positive reception. It is widely regarded as one of the defining movies of the Malayalam New Wave. A multinarrative thriller that intertwines multiple stories around one particular incident, Traffic is inspired from an actual event that happened in Chennai. Owing to its critical and commercial success, Traffic was remade into Tamil as Chennaiyil Oru Naal, in Kannada as Crazy Star and to be remade in Hindi cinema. This was also the last film of the veteran actor Jose Prakash.

On the same day, at a crowded traffic junction in Kochi, Raihan and Rajeev Asif Ali, travelling in a bike are fatally hit by a speeding car at the signal. Raihan was all set to interview the superstar, Siddharth Shankar. Also at the junction, in another car, was the surgeon Dr. Abel.Raihan goes into coma and is declared brain dead although he is kept alive using ventilator. Meanwhile, Siddharths ailing daughters condition becomes worse and she urgently needs a heart transplant. At first Raihans parents do not agree to take their son off the ventilator and donate their sons heart but Rajeev and Raihans girlfriend persuade them into it. Now that the heart is available, the problem was with transporting it from Kochi to Palakkad. No chartered flights or helicopters were available and so the heart had to be taken by road. Someone had to drive the 150 kilometres in under two hours during the rush traffic. ........

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